To summon Radek1* immediately. Request Dzerzh[insko]go2*.

Bukh[ary]nu report (by Friday) to the P[olit]b[yuro] about Lap[insky] and the policy of the Polish leaders.

To concede to the British, to give up the demand to arm the workers.

In the reply to England3* separate criticism and propaganda in detail.

Dan[i]sh[ewsko]mu should be given a directive not only to declare that our demands are not ultimatum, but also to refuse to arm the workers.

Fond 2, op. 1, d. 15154 - autograph.

1* Further V.I.Lenin crossed out: "(and Dzerzh[insky])".

2* Further V.I.Lenin crossed out: "Radek to send to Baku".

3* Further V.I.Lenin crossed out: "to answer".

1The draft resolution was proposed by Lenin at a meeting of the Politburo of the Central Committee of the RCP(b) on August 25, 1920, when discussing the question: "8. Curzon's note, Kamenev's letter and Chicherin's conversation with Danishevsky over the wire". In the minutes of the meeting the resolution is recorded as follows: "8. (a) Mr. Radek should be summoned to report immediately. Tov. Dzerzhinsky to request. 6) The British to concede, to give up the demand to arm the workers, c) In the reply to England to develop in detail the criticism and propaganda. d) Tov. Danishevsky to give a directive not only to declare the non-ultimativity of our demands, but also the refusal to arm the workers, e) Tov. Bukharin to assign a report (by Friday) to the Politburo on Lapin[sic] and the policy of the Polish leaders" (RTSKHIDNI, f. 17, op. 3, d. 104, fol. 2).

K.B. Radek reported on the negotiations with Poland at a meeting of the Politburo of the Central Committee of the RCP(b) on August 26.

The British government objected to paragraph 4 of the main provisions of the peace treaty with Poland, proposed by the Russian delegation at the plenary session of the Russian-Ukrainian-Polish peace conference in Minsk on August 17. Clause 4 established the maximum of the armed forces of Poland (50 thousand men), and also: "This number of armed forces shall be supplemented by a civil militia, organized from the workers, intended to preserve order and protect the safety of the population" (Documents of the Foreign Policy of the USSR. Vol. III. M., 1959, p. 137).

In the note of G. V. Chicherin to the British Government of August 25, it was emphasized that the Government of Soviet Russia "does not insist on the condition relating to the arming of a workers' civil militia in Poland" (ibid., pp. 143-147).

The Politburo meeting on Friday (August 28), at which N. I. Bukharin was to speak about P. L. Lapinskii, did not take place; Bukharin did not speak on this issue at further Politburo meetings.

F.E. Dzerzhinsky was at that time in Bialystok.